The ETF symbol XLK illustrates the kind of right triangle top I am seeing all over the place.

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It has been a few weeks since I wrote a post about the US equity markets and in large part that has been because while the short term patterns and setups are still important, and I’ve still been looking at those in detail in my daily premarket videos for subscribers, the background to this market, while generally ignored, has been becoming increasingly obvious and divergent from what we are watching on the surface.
I was talking to a friend about this yesterday and compared it to washing the windows on a house that was burning down. I said that as this happened the person washing the windows would either be unaware that the house is burning down or didn’t yet see why that might be important. Only when that perception changed would he/she stop washing the windows.
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